With a victory against Cameroon, the Netherlands remained maintained their 100% record to the next round and a draw against the Slovaks surprising. This is seemingly easy passage to the knockout stage garnered mixed reviews back home.
The team has not encountered in the first round of a tournament since Euro 1980, so that the expectation of the public in general, beyond the first few weeks. This does not feel like a performance for the home support in poor condition. No, the team must play with style, and anything below the standard of total football rights 1974-1988, was disapproved.
Coach Bert van Marwijk has opted for a more cautious approach for now. A four defense is protected by two defensive midfielders. This system worked to perfection in qualifying in the team only conceded two goals, on average the best performance of all participants of the tournament.
Unfortunately all the DVDs of their qualifying matches became widely available to all other members of the group technical staff at the tournament. All these buses have carefully studied the tactics of each team. The hours of the analysis was used to a strategy to neutralize opponents make. Morten Olsen of Denmark and Japan's Takeshi Okada a front and five midfielders against the Netherlands sent six defensive mentality. The result was a tie.
Mark van Bommel and Nigel de Jong have maintained their position near the halfway line, leaving four creative Orangisti trapped between two lines of at least four defenders. Never found any room to move, even after the start of the Holland took advantage in the second half on two occasions.
Developing a team into a defensive force with less then one month is very difficult. To change them to an alternative strategy is almost impossible. This national coaches do not have time and maybe the right players for that kind of flexibility, so it's not so easy to change tactics and only proceed if all equipment is based on the destruction of the game from the opponent. The result was two draws, interrupted only by a couple of defensive errors.
We will never know the original plans of the coach of Cameroon, Paul Le Guen as your team needs the points to pass. When she was in the lot a fun game with enough potential to keep the viewers like.
That the Dutch team has been involved in some of the most horrible games in this World Cup has not gone unnoticed at home. One of the harshest critics, Wim van Hanegem, now an expert. On Saturday decided to leave your TV set soon to the studio and listened to the remaining 20 minutes against Japan on your car radio. He was shocked by the lack of depth and courage.
"We are the Netherlands," he said. "They are afraid of us. Why not just pressure on the defense of Japan from the kick-off and roll over them. Now we say we have done well because Japan had just one chance. Why assume that? Our marking The six men had little Keisuke Honda, a lone striker. They should have given all the risks, it would have been terrible. Ah! "
In defense of Van Marwijk can say that he was the first Dutch coach to take maximum points from games in the group. Secondly, the tactics of the World Cup undermined when Arjen Robben sore hamstrings pulled five minutes before the end of last friendly. He decided not to change their system and just Rafael van der Vaart in the position of Robben on the left.
Van der Vaart did what he could, but it has the speed and quality of Bayern. Against Cameroon, Robben back for the last 20 minutes, or the other, as had already occurred Eljer Elia Van der Vaart on the left in the game. In his first contribution Robben hit the post after the use of your starting time that has many blind defenders this season. Again it worked, but hit the inside of the post. Nolan took the rebound to score the winner.
Van Marwijk two front lines in the game as a hockey coach. His attacking options, with the return of Robben are numerous and exciting. However, in the second round of Slovakia could copy the tactics of the Dutch opponents and go for a draw and penalties. If this is not enough for the terrible gamblers Orange, that other famous Dutch rock rears its ugly head, too.
The quarter-final opponent for one of these two teams would probably Brazil. Not the first time that a Dutch team prepares for a possible confrontation later, while the underestimation of the task.
It happened in 1976 when the Netherlands were a clear favorite to become champion of Europe, in Yugoslavia. They faced Czechoslovakia in the semifinals first, but everyone was looking for revenge on the Germans who played the hosts following days, including the players.
However, in the pouring rain in Zagreb, unknown opponents proved more than a handful, taking an early lead. The Dutch never recovered, he even veto referee Clive Thomas. Arrogant in decreased overtime in one of the most disgraceful exhibition ever. The backbone of the victors Checa, who deservedly won the final and came to Slovan Bratislava Inter and now the capital of Slovakia. This is a warning.
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